The discussion revolves around resolving the “GIFPHY API key is not set” error in Discourse. HisFocus followed the setup instructions but still encountered the error despite entering the API key. They questioned whether upgrading to a production key was necessary, especially for a small site. jericson clarified that the production upgrade isn’t required, emphasizing the need to ensure the API key matches the setting in the discourse-gifs component and that the component is enabled on the default theme. Falco suggested trying Tenor as an alternative due to Giphy’s pricing changes. HisFocus confirmed that following jericson’s advice resolved the issue.
I followed the instructions found in the thread, Discourse Gifs, however, when applying the API key, when attempting to apply a gif in a post, I still get the same error message that reads as follows:
But I did this already. I’ve uninstalled the component and reinstalled the component and after entering the correct API key, I still get the same message.
Forgive me, but do I have to “Upgrade to Production Key”? It requires that I somehow take a video of how I will use the “gif” in Discourse. Is this essential to get this working, or is that for huge business sites? We are a very very small site with about 20 users at present.
Please advise. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and if anyone has experience getting as far as I have, did I not go far enough? Is there more to do?
I’ve set GIPHY up on one of my sites and I haven’t used the “Upgrade to Production” button. I do recall having a false start setting it up, but I don’t recall the details at the moment.
The API key is easy enough to find on the GIPHY dashboard. Make sure it matches giphy api key in the discourse-gifs theme component settings, I guess? The only other non-defaults I have set are:
giphy content rating = “pg”
limit infinite search results = true
Of course I also made sure the component is enabled on the default theme.
